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CADOGAN, Lt Col Stanley Clifford (1908-1998)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Cadogan

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: CADOGAN, Lt Col Stanley Clifford (1908-1998)

Date(s): Created 1998

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Williams | Bruce O B | fl 1998 | nephew of Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clifford Cadogan

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1908; educated at West Buckland School, Devon; employed by W E Hinde Shipping Company, Cardiff, Glamorgan, 1925; employed by Gaumont British Cinemas, London and Birmingham [1930]; Lt, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army and Supplementary Reserve, 1931; service with 53 (Welsh) Div Signals, Cardiff, Glamorgan, 1931-1933; Manager, News Reel Cinema, Bristol, Gloucestershire, 1933; Manager, Forum Cinema, Bath, Somerset, 1934; employed by Howard Tenens, London, 1938; Lt, 44 (Home Counties) Div Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army, London, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Capt, 1941; temporary Maj, 1942; Officer Commanding Madras Signals Company, India, 1942; service in Diksal, Jhansi and Gwalior, India, 1942-1943; War Substantive Maj, 1943; Commanding Officer, 70 Div Signals, India, 1944; Chief Signals Officer, Chindits, Burma, 1945; demobilised as Hon Lt Col, 1945; awarded TD, 1949; Ship Broker and Member of Lloyds of London; died 1998.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript notes and copies of photographs, compiled by his nephew, Bruce O B Williams, relating to Cadogan's life and career, 1908-1998, including genealogical information and notes on bibliographic sources on the Chindit operations in Burma, 1943-1944 (Operations LONGCLOTH, Feb-Mar 1943 and THURSDAY, Mar 1944). Also, brief typescript notes on the life and military careers of Lt Ernest Llewellyn Williams, 160 Bde, Royal Field Artillery, 34 Div, Western Front, 1917-1918, and Maj Lewis Bernard Williams, Royal Artillery, World War Two, 1939-1945.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1999.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: TD

Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
First Chindit Expedition (1943) | World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Operation Longcloth (1943) | Military operations | Military engineering
Operation Thursday (1944) | Military operations | Military engineering
Second Chindit Expedition (1944) | World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Cadogan | Stanley Clifford | 1908-1998 | Lieutenant Colonel
Williams | Bruce O B | fl 1998 | nephew of Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clifford Cadogan
Williams | Ernest Llewellyn | fl 1900-1918 | Lieutenant
Williams | Lewis Bernard | fl 1923-1945 | Major

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Myanmar | South East Asia